Chasing Charlie
- people were told to kill as many people on the other side as they could.
- When in the war people say when they are coming back the are going back to the world.
- there were traps every where and you had to step carefully
- the new soldiers would go in the front to look for traps.
- grunts is the names for infantrymen.
- This was not like any other war it was different
- There where a lot of whites between the age of 21-22 and then 10% was blacks
- When soldier where trained they got on a air-conditioned plane to Vietnam, but when they got off they were shocked of all the smells and the heat.
- After staying at the camps for some time they where moved in the wild they where called Platoon. they had 20-40 people, a head, and a doctor. many of the grunts had knowledge of other stuff that helped.
- The radiotelephone operator was important it called artillery and support to there group. It was what the enemy wanted to kill first.
- A grunt carried a lot about 35-70 pounds and then add guns and other weapons to protect them.
- explosive device called Claymore which was dangerous.
- Cherries was newboy
- The U.S. was against the VC nickname Charlie and NVA the where well-respected.
- There was big animals that could kill you.